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I see an image of a Marine who lost someone very important. He is playing some music with his accordion while he is crying for his loss. He is surrounded by other people. Those people are sad as well some of them are crying but not like this Marine. This image shows me that the photographer got the right angle to transmit the real feelings of that image.

Graham W Jackson and President Franklin D Roosevelt were very close friends. It seems the death of President Roosevelt was something which most people felt sad about it. Mainly his friend Graham Jackson. According to the website time.com Roosevelt was a President love for most Americans, "The only man elected four times to the nation’s highest office (although he would die within months of being sworn in to his final term), Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s greatness can be measured, in one elemental sense, by the passions he still excites in both his supporters and detractors. To the former, he was a courageous and compassionate leader."

                                         

What feelings does the image create?  The image creates feelings of sadness, mourning and dejection. The main subject is crying and looking to the sky, maybe looking for something or thinking about someone. The people on background look very sad as well. 

Obvious main subject, about ¼ to 2/3 of image area: The main subject is kind of 1/2 of image area. He is in left side occupying a little bit of the middle in the picture. He is the main object but he is not in the middle of the picture.

Is the image black & white or color? The image is in black and white. I believe the black and white intensified the feeling of this picture it made the main subject looks better and more alive.

Mario Cruz

This photo represents truth to me because it shows the reality of a lot people from South America. The only problem is the media which do not show it at all. People think in South America everybody has a good life, they go to the beach, they look happy all the time, but is not like that. A lot of citizens do not have house, food or clothes and they are forgotten in the world.

People can even think that is not ethic to this picture be posted but, I see this picture more as an alert to everybody see what is the reality, what is going on South America. Storytellers may be interested in the periphery, but technical image makers (and the news feeds they keep buzzing) are not. People are more interest in things that suits them not other people, this is the problem in the world right now.

The way that I see for this image is the sense perception. I am from South America, I have seen people in the same conditions as the kid in the picture it is sad and horrible. The social inequality is so big. Some people have too much and other people have nothing the gap between them is ridiculous.

do Estadão

Around August and September the media was spreading fake news about the Amazonia. They were saying that was a big fire and nobody was caring about it. But they forgot to mention the fire always happen during that time of the year, is pretty normal. They were saying that nobody care to make the president Jair Bolsonaro look bad and put the whole world against him. The country is divided at the moment because of that, there is people on his side and people against him. 

People have the power to see the pictures and say whatever they want. Nowadays we want fast searches, we do not have the second look to see if it is truth or not. "We do not have time for it". One similar example is when Hillary Clinton. Based on wired.com "stumbled as she climbed the steps of an antebellum mansion in Charleston, It was really bizarre and dispiriting to see,” he says. “We’re always attuned to photographic manipulation, but what was more sinister in this situation was the misappropriation of a photo.” People have the power to decide what they are going to say about the picture is up to the viewer to see if the news is true or false.

For this picture the language/authority is the way which fits. After I only use the media (television), as my main source and after I look for more sources I could see different opinions which made me search about the Amazonia. My final research showed me that the fire always happen during August and September it is pretty normal.